Alfred Lutter

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Alfred Lutter
Born
Alfred William Lutter III

(1962-03-21) March 21, 1962 (age 62)
Alma mater Stanford University
Occupations
  • Entrepreneur
  • engineer
  • consultant
Years active1974–1977

Alfred William Lutter III (born March 21, 1962) is an American entrepreneur, engineer, consultant, and former child actor. [1] [2]

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Life and career

Lutter was born on March 21, 1962, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, where he also grew up. He graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1980. [3] Lutter starred along with Ellen Burstyn and Jodie Foster in the 1974 Martin Scorsese film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore . [4] The TV series Alice was a spin-off of this movie, in which he reprised his role as Alice's son Tommy in the pilot episode but was replaced by Philip McKeon when the series began.

Lutter also appeared as the young version of Woody Allen's character, Boris, in Love and Death ; [5] and played the brainy Alfred Ogilvie in the original The Bad News Bears , and its first sequel, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training . He also starred as Phillip in The Cay , a TV movie about a black Caribbean Islander and a white American boy lost on an island.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Stanford University in 1984 and a Master of Science degree in management and engineering from Stanford in 1988. In June 1986, he founded Lutter Consulting, a company providing technology strategy, organizational management, and outsourced software development services. He was also the CTO of Cumulus Media, E*Offering, and Lynda.com.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore TommyNominee- BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
1974 The Cay PhillipTV movie
1975 Love and Death Young Boris
1976 The Bad News Bears Ogilvie
1977 The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training Ogilvie(final film role to date)
1977 Family (1976 TV series) Alvin(Someone's Watching)

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References

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  2. "Alfred Lutter III". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media . Retrieved May 27, 2021.
  3. "Jocelyn Mays to wed Alfred W. Lutter III", The Ridgewood News, March 27, 1994. Accessed February 1, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mays of Bonita, Calif, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jocelyn Eastman, to Alfred William Lutter III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred William Lutter Jr. of Rancho Bernardo, Calif.... Mr. Lutter, a graduate of Ridgewood High School,', obtained his bachelors degree in civil engineering in 1984 from Stanford University and his masters degree in engineering and management in 1988, also from Stanford University."
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